Pipe.



No. 782,077. PATENTED FEB. '7, 1905.

A. S. SPBIRS.

PIPE.

APPLICATION FILED HAB.18,1904.

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Patented February '7, 1905.

ALBERT S. SPEIRS, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

PIPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 782,077, dated February '7, 1905. Application tiled March 18,1904. Serial No. 198,750.

To all II'II/OHI/ it mar 1 concern:

Be it known that 1, ALBERT S. SrEiRs, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Pipe, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pipes, and has for its objects to produce a comparatively simple inexpensive device of this character of the class known as drop-pipes, and to provide the same with an independent freely-removable salivareceptacle securely but detachahly connected with the bowl or tobacco-receptacle of the pipe.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple and effective filtering member or medium disposed within the saliva-receptacle and in the path of the smoke, whereby the latter will be freed from moisture and otherwise purified prior to exit from the stem, said filtering member also serving as a cleaning device or mop by which the saliva-receptacle may be readily and effectuallycleansed.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a pipe embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the coupling member or duct. Fig. it is a similar view of the filtering member or cleaner.

eferring to the drawings, 1 designates the body or bowl composed from corncob, brier, or other suitable material and hollowed out, as usuahto produce a tobacco receptacle or chamber 2, from which an openingor orifice 3, disposed adjacent to the bottom of the receptacle. leads transversely through the wall of the bowl, especial attention being directed to the fact that the axis of this opening is substantially at right angles with the longitudinal axis of the chamber for a purpose which will later appear. Detachabl y connected with the bowl 1 by a coupling member or duct 4. is an independent saliva cup or receptacle 5, composed from wood or other suitable material and preferably in the form of an open-ended tube provided through its side wall with an opening 6 for the reception of one end of the tubular duct or coupling et, the other end of which is inserted in the orilice 3, thereby establishing communication between the tobacco and saliva receptacles, said coupling member being provided at its center with a disk-like enlargement or abutment T, by which it may be readily manipulated in making connection between the parts. A further function of this button resides in the fact that it contacts at its lower outer face with the adjacent wall of the receptacle 5 and at the upper portion of its inner face with the bowl 1, thus serving as a bearing for said parts and to relieve the ends of the coupling of considerable strain incident to the weight of the bowl.

The upper end of the receptacle 5 receives the lower end of a stem 8, while the lower end of the receptacle is normally closed by a removable plug or closure 9, carrying a filtering member or medium 10, which is preferably in the form of a wire stem having wool, cotton, or other suitable absorbent materials twisted therein and of suitable length to extend through the cup or receptacle and into the lower end of the stem, whereby it will lie within the path of the smoke flowing through the duct 4c and serve to free the same from moisture and other impurities.

Attention is especially directed to the fact that in practice the cup or receptacle 5 may, owing to the use of the coupling 4, be readily connected with any style of bowl, aud,further, that this coupling permits of theorilice 3 being formed horizontally through the wall of the bowl, as heretofore mentioned, which is particularly desirable and, in fact, absolutely essential when the bowl is composed from cob, the grain of which is of such nature as to. render practically impossible the formation of an inclined perforation through the wall of the bowl. it is to be further noted that the closure 9 being removable permits of the receptacle being readily cleansed, for which purpose the member 10 will serve as a mop, and that by extending the end of the member 10 into the lower end of the stem the entrance of moisture, 630., into the latter is obviated.

From the foregoing it will be seen that l produce a device of simple construction which I00 is admirably adapted for the attainment of the ends in View; but it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details herein set forth, inasmuch as minor changes may be made therein Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed is 1. In a pipe,the combination With a tobaccoreceptacle, of an independent saliva-receptacle communicating and detachably connected therewith, a stem communicating With the latter receptacle, and a filtering medium disposed in the saliva receptacle and extending into the adjacent end of the stem.

2. In a pipe, the combination With a tobaccoreceptacle, of an independent saliva-receptacle communicating and detachably connected therewith, a stem communicating with the latter receptacle, a removable closure for one end of said receptacle, and a filtering member carried by the closure and extending into the adjacent end of the stem.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

ALBERT S. SPEIRS.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. OGRADY, FELIX S. TOWLE. 

